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The Norwegian Cognitive Linguistics Association (NORKOG) organises the biannual Cognitive Summer Seminar (CSS12) in Oslo, Norway, June 10-11 2012. CSS12 is organised in cooperation with the research group Time is Space: Unconscious Models and Conscious Acts at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. We want the seminar to be a broad forum for topics that relate to cognitive linguistics in a wide sense, including, but not limited to